Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

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As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed. Rebecca Sharpless shows that as employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home.